Overview

Inscription

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

Recorded as from Pennsylvania. Probably (Avis and Rockwell Gardner, Stamford, Connecticut),[1] by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1955.

[1] A dealer's note attached to an old snapshot of the painting (in NGA curatorial files) is annotated "Gardiner 6/26/49." Avis and Rockwell Gardiner is the only dealership by this name listed in Antiques issues of this period.

Exhibition History

1954

American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Part I, National Gallery of Art, 1954, no. 110.

1962

Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1962-1989 (temporarily returned to NGA for in-house exhibition in honor of the inauguration, December 1980 - March 1981).